I was expecting Hausa to sound more Niger Congo influenced due to the location but it doesn’t .........

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Chadic is close to Berber languages.

They came from R1b men from Italy mingling with Libyan Berbers, appropriating their language, and then pushing into Lake Chad and fucking Nilotic women and turning completely black. Later pushing West and incorporating Niger-Congo peoples as well (Nigeria).

@Apollo I think Chadic as a branch is the most conservative of the AA language family. It sounds like Cushitic, and it sounds like Semitic. If you told me that Hausa was a Cushitic language I would easily believe that. It sounds like Oromo to me. I think Berber is the most divergent outside of Omotic.

@Apollo I think Chadic as a branch is the most conservative of the AA language family. It sounds like Cushitic, and it sounds like Semitic. If you told me that Hausa was a Cushitic language I would easily believe that. It sounds like Oromo to me. I think Berber is the most divergent outside of Omotic.

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They share most vocab and grammatic structure with Amazigh. In the past, racist scholars tried to hide this because they assumed because of Chadic's blackness that they weren't AA at all. But more recent analyses show they are closest to Amazigh.

They share most vocab and grammatic structure with Amazigh. In the past, racist scholars tried to hide this because they assumed because of Chadic's blackness that they weren't AA at all. But more recent analyses show they are closest to Amazigh.

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That is interesting. I have always found it weird that the Hausa speak an AA language, while Fulanis speak a Niger Congo language. is there a reason for this? Did Fulanis originally speak an AA language?

Well, not really.. the Sub-Saharan part of Fulanis (range 85%-60%) is deeply connected to Senegambians. Even Nigerian and Sudanese Fulanis have this high Senegambian link. So they are not classic language shifters like Hungarians and Amharas.

They are a Senegambian population that absorbed Green Sahara (proto)-Berbers.